How many people have died as a whole due to eugenics, a Darwinian concept put forth in The Decent of Man?

Death or war have nothing to do with God or Darwin. The world goes on it's way and the wars and the deaths take place because mankind is here. Striving for a better world we are now at the mercy of superstitious terrorists killing in the name of. We had the bygone horrors of the people in your question. When one threat is eliminated for mankind another rears it's ugly head. Who would ever think that religion would cause the turmoil of today. Muslim killing Christian and Muslims alike. Whats next????

Eugenics has almost never been an accepted policy because people don't exactly think that murdering someone for having a bad gene is a good thing. The only time where people actually did something like that on a mass scale, I believe, was in Hitler's Germany to make the Aryan race supreme. Since Hitler's Germany didn't last for too many generations, I assume that that policy died out quickly.

Oh, and there was that time in Australia where an entire generation of Aboriginal children were kidnapped so they could be bred with people of European decent, and thus they would slowly bleach the color out of the Aboriginals.

Those are the only two incidents that come to mind. If you're talking about good old-fashioned evolution, (the difference being that evolution chugs along its merry way while eugenics requires some government program) then you can look at everyone. Let's go to the Chinese, for example. For most, if not all, dynasties, the idea of a petite woman with pale skin and dark hair was the ideal for beauty. Now, you have a lot more petite, dark-haired, pale Chinese women than you did back then.

You mention God, as opposed to a certain religion, so I won't come down specifically on christians. However, religions have been responsible for genocides around the world, and if that organization still exists, that means it's still guilty. I argue with family members that if I were to join a nazi group it would be the same as what they choose to do, because I could use the same argument they do. All that stuff happened a long time ago, it's not like that anymore.

People choose to follow mythology blindly to the point of lunacy, which is an odd behavior for the most intelligent life forms on the planet.

Now, about this Hitler guy, he was raised a Roman Catholic and makes constant religious references throughout Mien Kampf. He firmly believed that he was doing the creators bidding to purify and perfect the human race.

Here in the US, there happened an experiment called the Tuskegee Experiment which accused certain African Americans of having "Bad Blood". Many people died of the experiments. I've heard that this was an example of the type you seek, but it's not true since the leading minds were all major players in the bible belt mentality that used their magic book to justify their belief that darker skinned people are inferior.

There is an indisputable fact about religion, people choose to be religious, no-one chooses to be a certain race or where they're born.

There is only 1 exception I have found as a student of war that did not lead with some form of, "God is on our side" type of retoric, and that was Ghengis Khan. Oddly he is also the leader who till this day holds the title of conquering the most territory in human history. So maybe you should research him, though I can tell you for fact that his victims don't amount to much compared to victims of religious wars.

Not have read the Adolf Hitler quote previously we did a search that included Chalcedon Report. A search of the latter (including Hitler, Otto Scott etc.) produced no results. All other 'hits" for the quotation were found on creationist sites. There was no primary sources for this quotation.

A search on "Hitler evolution" did result in quotes that showed him as a creationist.

"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. ii, ch. x

Like a creationist, Hitler affirms that humans existed "from the very beginning", and could not have evolved from apes:

From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today? Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen. But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump , as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today. - Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Tabletalk (Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier) "

http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Hitler_and_evolut...

"Don’t you think that if Hitler had been influenced by Darwin that he would have mentioned it somewhere in his book? Why wouldn’t he? But not even once. +

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2008/03/hitler-...

Where is a primary source for the alleged quotation and how is it supported by sources?

Off the top of my head, without even thinking, before Darwin came along, the Europeans wiped out most of the indigenous peoples on earth, the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the obliteration of the Native American Indian, and the guillotining of the French aristocracy combines to an enormous amount of genocide without Darwin's influence. Also, the American Civil War, south against north, took place before the publication you are talking about, also.

Eugenics developed more out of the social Darwinism theory put forth by Herbert Spencer. Spencer is more to blame than Darwin. People throughout history have distorted Darwin's ideas to justify personal biases.

You are way off base here. Yes there are dark chapters in the history of evolutionary theory (I won't deny that), but nowhere near that of religion. People like Spencer and Hitler used parts of evolutionist theory to justify hatred, just as modern terrorists and fundamentalists use religion to justify their often dubious actions.

You can't vilify Darwin for what other people have done with his theories. If you follow that logic with religion, then God is quite nefarious given the actions that many of his followers take.

Just add the number of abortions and how many people have died as a result of genocide and it'll be about how many have died because of eugenics.

Numbers are too empty. Numbers are so much more slim